![]() ![]() Here, they learn a bit about the otherworldly beings. Soon, the two men and a few fellow train riders (including Bojana Novakovic’s Audrey, the train conductor) have escaped the tunnels only to be hauled up into the mothership themselves. ![]() There, we soon learn, their brains are harvested to somehow animate the bodies of individual soldiers in the alien army. Mark and son Trent (Jonny Weston) are trapped on the Metro when a giant alien mothership attacks the city, hypnotizing Angelenos with some kind of blue ray and sucking them up into the sky. ![]() Grillo (who had a more three-dimensional toplining role in Netflix’s recent Wheelman) plays Mark, an LAPD cop on leave after his wife’s death. While O’Donnell would have been smart to hire a screenwriter instead of doing double-duty behind the scenes, the fanboy crowd won’t complain too loudly with one of their favorite character actors, Frank Grillo, kicking extraterrestrial ass in a space opera that could plausibly launch a very niche franchise. With strong effects work belying what was surely a tiny budget, Liam O’Donnell’s Beyond Skyline finds the first-time director relying on his experience in VFX departments of much bigger Hollywood productions. ![]()
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